From: Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
Date: Mon Jun 04 2001 - 06:29:30 MDT
Lee Corbin wrote:
> You enter a room and find a block of ice encasing a
> frozen duplicate of you that was made a few minutes
> ago. On the block of ice sits a briefcase with ten
> million dollars in it. You have two choices:
> (A) allow your frozen duplicate to be disintegrated
> along with the briefcase
> (B) agree to be instead disintegrated yourself, so
> that your duplicate awakes and deposits the money
Let me think, I decide whether I let myself killed
(well, I hope the other guy is not too cheap to build
me a real impressive tombstone), and some other guy
gets the money, or I can just walk away from it?
Hmm, let me think. What a hard choice to make.
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